John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 5: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Sketch Show

The complete fifth series of BBC Radio 4's award-winning sketch show, written by and starring the writer of Cabin Pressure. John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme has won a host of awards, including the 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy with Live Audience. Written by and starring John Finnemore, this fifth series of the hit show returns with more witty wordplay and laugh-out-loud sketches.

Shush!: The BBC Radio 4 sitcom

Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front star in a brand-new comedy set in a library. Meet Alice, a former child prodigy who's scared of everything - except libraries and her colleague, Snoo, a slightly confused individual with a have-a-go attitude towards life, marriage, haircuts, and reality. Forever popping into the library is Dr. Cadogan, celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with his finger in every pie. Their happy life is interrupted by the arrival of Simon Nielson, a man with a mission to close down inefficient libraries....

John Finnemore's Double Acts: Six BBC Radio 4 Comedy Dramas

Celia Imrie, Alison Steadman, John Bird and Rebecca Front are among the cast of these six comedy two-handers written by Cabin Pressure's John Finnemore. The stories are: 'A Flock of Tigers'; 'Wysinnwig'; 'Red-Handed'; 'The Goliath Window'; 'English for Pony-Lovers'; and 'Hot Desk'. Also among the cast are Charles Edwards, Isy Sutie, Lawrie Lewin, John Finnemore, Simon Kane, Beth Mullen, Matthew Baynton and Jenny Bede.

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary.

Donald says:"A New Appreciation"

Publisher's Summary

The third series of programmes in which Steve Punt turns super-sleuth, examining little mysteries that perplex, amuse and beguile. In these four episodes, he looks into the phantom settlement of Argleton; travels to the Polish-Czech border to investigate one man's theory that the Nazis had developed flying saucer technology; scrutinises a wax cylinder which is reputed to carry the only recording of Queen Victoria's voice and investigates the curse of the Crying Boy paintings and why, in house fires in the 80s, the pictures were the only items to survive unscathed.